Monday Musings
Head Voice: The Other Side of the Bridge
Lately, my thoughts have been all about the HEAD VOICE1. Nothing really delights an audience like a lovely floated high note.2 Those are the sounds that really thrilled me as a young singer listening to opera recordings. It wasn’t just the power of these voices that thrilled me, but their sweetness and beauty.
Garcia’s registrational chart placed Chest register in the bottom, Falsetto in the middle, and Head on the top of all voices (excepting true basses).3 For Garcia, head voice “kicked in” around C5.4
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